The thing I like about Blue Sky is that I can quickly make the hate speech and disparaging comments go away by blocking or muting those who spew them out. Click.
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It's like the Russian trolls were just WAITING for her to show up. Old habits die hard... Putin hates Hillary more than ANYONE.
mar 31, 2025, 9:19 pm • 5 0 • view
It makes the job easier of weeding out the trolls. They come out like moths flying around a light bulb.
mar 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 4 0 • view
I know! It's been awhile since I've seen a thread with so many. It really helps to take a quick peek at their profile too, now I have a better feel for the type of profile they create to trick us... very different from the profiles they create to trick maga lol.
mar 31, 2025, 9:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, BlueSky is something new in that people prefer to block trolls instead of engage them. I'd get exasperated on Twitter with people getting drawn into trollfests -- but here the trolls get blocked.
mar 31, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
My thoughts exactly. And if what others told me is true, blocking means they don't have the privilege to see us ever again either, unlike blocking on Facebook and maybe elsewhere too.
mar 31, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
That's unfortunately incorrect. Blocking hides you from the blockee on Bluesky, but that's Bluesky-specific; the underlying AT protocol makes all account activity public by design, so the blockee can use one of several alternate apps to view your account and activity.
mar 31, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Hmm. OK. I'm not on any other app anyway, so it's the same difference to me, I guess. What others apps use the BlueSky address as member ID?
mar 31, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I know SkySpace (Bluesky-based MySpace clone) is one such user-facing app that ignores Bluesky-level blocking. For those more programming savvy, at.tools lets you explore the raw data. For example, if I were to block you, you'd still be able to see all my info at atp.tools/at:/yellowap...
apr 1, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Cool! I'll save that tool. Mike's link: "What does blocking do? Blocking prevents interaction. When you block an account, both you and the other account will no longer be able to SEE OR or interact with each other’s posts." That sounds like the blockee can't see my future posts, doesn't it?
apr 1, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
...And wouldn't that make sense? If you choose not to interact, why would you block your view that still lets that blockee see and then slander you on third parties? If you don't want to interact, the view really has to be blocked two-way.
apr 1, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
That quote's specifically about the user-facing Bluesky app (bsky.app), rather than the underlying AT Protocol. As for *why* (almost) everything is public, it's because Bluesky/ATProto needs it to be for federation/decentralization to work.
apr 1, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
For example: if Elon Musk somehow manages to buy Bluesky and run it into the ground like he's doing with Twitter, you and I would still be able to run our own servers and move all our data off of Bluesky's servers and onto ours, thanks to ATProto's federation features.
apr 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
(To correct myself a bit: "all account activity" excludes chat messages as far as I know. But posts, replies, reposts, and likes are all still public.)
mar 31, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Chats are private and can be blocked. I know for sure a chat block is two-way. How do you know this, RyNo? is it published somewhere?
mar 31, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Hillary triggers “cloaked MAGA” like no one else does. I’m glad she’s here, because it’s a litmus test to be able to purge those from my feed that have some sort of ulterior motive to try and scuttle the obvious anti-MAGA momentum. Musk is actually doing what he accuses Soros of doing. Guaranteed
mar 31, 2025, 8:58 pm • 168 14 • view
OTOH, there are valid reasons to be mad at her. She ran a bad campaign, and was deeply disliked before she ever threw her hat in the ring. Even if she won, she'd be a milquetoast center-right president. Better than trump? Absolutely, but an empty chair is better than trump.
mar 31, 2025, 9:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Fair criticism shouldn't be rejected just because you personally like the person. She was never a good candidate, let alone nominee. (Also, she pisses off people on the left because she's, at best, a rich self serving center-right numpty who lost to trump)
mar 31, 2025, 9:16 pm • 6 0 • view
Valid reasons and fair criticism are parts of normal dialogue and conversations about politics, and are always welcome. I’m all for that, always. But the ones that lash out with bile and vitriol are insta-banned, I’m out of patience and have no time to engage with that anymore. It’s a waste of time.
mar 31, 2025, 9:22 pm • 7 0 • view
In the US, women didn't get the right to vote by politely asking. Disabled people didn't get protections by patiently waiting. You can choose to not interact with them, but civility can be just as toxic. Civility is a set of restrictions, and like any restrictions, it prevents people from acting.
mar 31, 2025, 10:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Women got the right to vote AFTER they did some firebombing. The ADA passed AFTER access to the Capitol was blocked. Neither of those were "civil" because "civility" is often a weapon of the oppressor, it encourages people to act a certain way in fear of being labeled "uncivil." Be uncivil.
mar 31, 2025, 10:13 pm • 5 0 • view
They are losing their 💩 from looking at the comments. About time for a block party.
mar 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 7 1 • view
“Block party”. I like that.
mar 31, 2025, 9:24 pm • 8 1 • view
I’m actually enjoying blocking these MAGA-adjacent trolls. It’s quite cathartic
mar 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 7 1 • view
🎯👍🏼
mar 31, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. I blocked over half a dozen from her thread today.
apr 1, 2025, 2:44 am • 8 1 • view
Pacific blues Exactly!!! Bingo!!! How many of these haters are musk bots or the same Russian propagandists from 2015? ❤️ Attacking hillary = block nice to hillary= friend me ❤️
mar 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 5 1 • view
🎯 yep, the cockroches🪳 are revealing themselves👊🏼🚫
mar 31, 2025, 9:00 pm • 63 2 • view
Agreed. The only other person that triggers them more is Hunter Biden, and especially if he has BlueSky on his “laptop from hell” as MAGA calls it.
mar 31, 2025, 9:06 pm • 41 2 • view
Hunter triggers them in a different way. With uncomfortable feelings and unceasing thoughts about his hog.
mar 31, 2025, 11:46 pm • 6 0 • view
🤭👍🏼
apr 1, 2025, 12:28 am • 4 0 • view
🎯
mar 31, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep same here. Some people are fools.
mar 31, 2025, 8:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Add me to the list. Block everyone who disagrees with you til you get your echochamber.
mar 31, 2025, 11:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Good advice! I will do the same 😊
mar 31, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. And I just learned that if I mute/delete the first post in the thread, the entire thread responding to that post also disappears. (If this is common knowledge, my apologies. I'm new at much of this.)
mar 31, 2025, 11:54 pm • 4 0 • view
This is a great page to root out the evil. Thanks Hillary.
apr 1, 2025, 4:42 am • 4 0 • view
Same!
apr 1, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
True. But better to report them and have them removed.
apr 1, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view